My road and community are not alone in suffering the plague that is lazy layabout scroungers. The problem exists through out the country. Mind, it is in this community that I see it and it is here that the fraud hurts personally.
Oddly, benefits cheats do not seem to suffer social stigma for their actions. Blatant abuse of the system is met with a total lack of concern on the part of many. Neighbours look the other way and in some ways even take part in the cheating.
Truth be told, much of what hurts community lived in, can be laid at the door of the benefits cheats. When folks have nothing to lose, there is little desire to do the right thing. Should all turn to custard, they just pack up and move on to another place and start the cheating all over again. Given that wee one are part of the fraud, so long as the wee ones are in the home, the benefits will continue to roll in.
Perhaps the hardest blow to suffer in fighting to right the wrongs that plague the road lived on and the community a part of, is the mean attitude of the benefits cheats. How they look you in the face and tell you that nothing can be done to them as they are on the dole, you can not take anything from them. Protected they are. Abuse of the law to dig in and stay, makes a win a loss.
What with taxes due in a day or so, it would be well to remember that the taxes paid keep the ride going for so many who do not deserve it. More's the pity that...
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